Radical Islam and Anti Globalization

Radical Islamic ParadigmsWithin a newly developing globalized world, Islamic movements and at times the Islamic world have taken the place of communism as the rising arch enemy against the currently dominant Western perspective.  Geo-strategic policies toward the Islamic communities by world powers have been affected immensely by terrorist acts perpetrated by radical Islamists.  In the new age of globalization, the repercussions of emerging radical transnational social and political Islamist forces are going to dominate the first quarter of the twenty-first century, as has been clear from the events of the last three decades of the twentieth century.  Radical Islamic Paradigms (ideological shifts and orientations) will have lasting effects on world socio-economic and political strategies.  The paradigms of religious claims and liberation symbols, as well as identity issues carved out of religion and history within a climate of Western globalization, have set the…